SH3 goes gold is it just me

[wodin]

Sorry I didn't explian it properly.

I was in a rush.

I understand all about the contacts on the navigation map and after time the contact dissapears. What Im talking about is the contact not fading out but instantly dissapearing. Didn't take much to work out I wouldnt have thought. Still sorry.

Thanks for the tip. I did think they actually moved. Thanks again.

[freeboy]

I find plotting possible courses for signal contacts... then when they are gone or show up farther along I can adjust

[Charles2222]

ORIGINAL: wodin

Sorry I didn't explian it properly.

I was in a rush.

I understand all about the contacts on the navigation map and after time the contact dissapears. What Im talking about is the contact not fading out but instantly dissapearing. Didn't take much to work out I wouldnt have thought. Still sorry.

Thanks for the tip. I did think they actually moved. Thanks again.

It seems like the only ones that would disappear, since I now understand you, would be ones that were sighted vis direct sight, such that diving without the periscope up would lose it.

[freeboy]

Actually all contacts disapear after a bit of time... either signal contacts where you get a message as in convoy large heading east slow at al 65 as well as your own visual contacts

[wodin]

Great mods at SubSim.com.

Fatigue mod over at sub sim. Crew fatigue after 8 hours. Pefect.

Good Compass mod.

Great new ship recognition mod it now shows which areas are more vunerable than others.

[DeepSix]

ORIGINAL: Tankerace

You do realize that after the 1st war patrol, you can assign the Gunner or Flak Gunner qualification, right? Of my 16 POs, I have 5 torpedomen, 2 watchmen, 2 machinists, 1 medic, 1 radioman, 1 Gunner, and 1 Flak Gunner. I am on my 9th Patrol, out of Brest.

Currently working on: "The Perfect Chief of the Boat" (Helmsman, Machinist, Repairman)[:D] I don't know if I just lucked out or what, but I've got a CWO qualified on sonar and I'm picking up ships waaaaay off. Seems like a full 24 hours before they ever come to the party.

[freeboy]

sounds good.. and I fanally have seen both lightning and rain.. and Heavy fog so thick I couldn't see the Cargo ship at 500 meters.. talk about imersion..
I really like the type IX..

[Tankerace]

Yeah, just got myself a IX boat myself. WOW. Its like driving a limo after riding in a compact car. And to boot, 2 days out of port I see a convoy. Time to put the ol' 105 to some use.

[DeepSix]

Can't wait for a IX... Is the manual correct in saying that the IXb's max depth is 350m? That's deeper than any other boat -- even the IXc. Just wondering if that's a typo.

Trailing a convoy in my VIIb (hehehe... the Kriegsmarine version of "Rollin' in my six-four"[:D]) and have had a weird experience. I'm all out of torps -- have been for the past week or so. But I've got lots of fuel, and a full deck gun. The weather won't cooperate, though. So I picked up a convoy and started shadowing it after I sent a contact report to BdU. I was running submerged so I cheated and F12'd to check the weather. Man is it rough up there. I notice, though, that way off on the horizon is a lone ship, separated from the convoy. "What is that?" I wonder. I fast cam over and discover that it's a coastal merchant swamped and going under. Over the next hour or so of game time, 3 more of the little fellers swamped and showed up on the nav map as sunk. Was it weather (I wouldn't be surprised)? Or other boats responding to the contact report I sent? The weird thing is that, after the convoy and I moved off to the east -- far enough to lose visual contact with the swamped merchants -- they reappeared on the map as travelling ships -- along with the sunk ship icons in the same spot (or almost so).

It hath me much vexed.[&:]

I'll post it at subsim, too, I just thought I'd throw that out....[:)]

[freeboy]

type nine b.. crush depth 165 meters.. you must be thinking or reading.. or a typo.. the last boat..XXI 275 meters pg50 IX is on pg 49 at 225 but that is a max depth as in good luck.. my test crushed my hull just after 170 meters! the VIIC rates250mtr actual test .. so it would be best overall for depth.. probably a good late war pick before the XXI

[DeepSix]

You're right -- I goofed up makes and models. The Type VIIc/42 will dive to 350 max (p. 47). I still want a IX, though. Don't think I'll live long enough to get a XXI.[:D]

[freeboy]

Deep six.. what kind of realism are you playing on?

[DamoclesX]

I just got that XI boat, very sweet so far, It was hard to part with my VII tho, I had her up to 20 knots on the surface!!

But that new 105mm cannon should help out a lot! and its suppose to be "better"

Maby now I can FINALLY run into some bigger ships, I swear I have sunk every merchent ship and destroyer in the entire british navy lol

[DeepSix]

ORIGINAL: freeboy

Deep six.. what kind of realism are you playing on?

A next-to-impossible 37%[;)].

At that level you can practically surface and give that Tribal class the finger![:'(]

[Tankerace]

I got in a gun battle with an Armed Trawler at 100% realism... I got him, but the tin can almost got me... then ala Run Silent Run deep I dived, and game him 2 fish.

[DeepSix]

I'll bet even Don Rickles was impressed![:D]

[Tankerace]

"Ya know, if we leave the hatch open, and water comes in, the boat will go down faster." -Don Rickles, in RSRD.

[wodin]

Woohoo at last I got my first cargo ship and about to intercept another! In a type II and thankgod it was one torpedo one kill.

[ravinhood]

"Ya know, if we leave the hatch open, and water comes in, the boat will go down faster." -Don Rickles, in RSRD

LOL ROFLMAO!!![:D]

[DeepSix]

LOL.

You can do that to a destroyer on 100%. But the only thing I can brag about is duking it out with a PT boat (got it with the flak gun). Yes sir. Add another whopping 35 tons to me total.[:D]

Way to go on the down-the-throat attack!